Re: SRCD

worthenh who-is-at garnet.berkeley.edu
Mon, 6 May 1996 11:20:56 -0700

Yes! You bet! I can't TELL you how tangled up I've gotten, trying to
figure out who did what when, who knew what when, etc. It's also
embarrassing not to know this stuff in some kind of overview sense --
I'm trying to write a dissertation on community college literacy
practices, which means mass education, which means looking at ways
that classrooms work in which the goal is NOT to sift up the top ten
percent; this means excavating this long thread of sociocultural theory
and the thread keeps disappearing. People in other disciplines -- sociology,
psychology, cognitive science, comparative literature, English -- of all
things -- (and I'm in education) all have different versions of this
history, and when I shift from one area to another (for my dissertation I
have to work out of economics, literacy theory, sociology and education in
the sense of the way higher education organizations are administered) I
m always finding a totally different version of this history. PLEASE
let's have a such a symposium!

Helena Worthen
worthenh who-is-at garnet.berkeley.edu

<<
The head of the history panel for the upcoming SRCD mentioned to me
that he thought a symposium on the history of Soviet thought in America
would be a good idea. Is anybody out there interested?

Michael Glassman
University of Houston
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